Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3,650, Silas Force, Va.

SERVICE
Va
Force, Silas
NUMBER
R. 3650
CONTENTS

35876
Silas Force
Ken.
Act. 7. June '32
3650

State of Kentucky Harrison County } } fct.
On this 2 nd day of September 1844 personally appeared before the Harrison County Court in open Court ————— Silas Stone of the said County of Harrison and State of Kentucky aged 78 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States and served as herein stated: that is to say - he was born in the County of Prince Edward in the State of Virginia on or about the 1 st day of Jan'y 1766 according to the best information which he has on the subject - that soon after his birth his mother died leaving four  13 children to wit: his mother Silas Stone and John Stone and Martha, Polly, Keziah & Martha Stone and this declarant - that after her death and he thinks in the early part of the winter 1777's his father Peter Stone together with the 2 ails  entire family left Virginia and came to the State of Ky. to the present County of Bourbon and located at the Fort at Martins Station about 3 or 4 miles below Paris. He states that in March 1778 he thinks was the month & year the Indians made an attack on the Fort and young as he was being only 12 years of age or thereabouts at that time he volunteered and aided in the defence of it and the Indians were repelled - He further states that in the month of June following (1778) as far as he remembers his father died leaving him and his brothers & sisters orphans and two or three days afterwards an attack was made by the British and Indians upon Riddles Station

situated about seven or eight miles from the fort at Martins Station and that post was captured by them. He states that they heard the firing at Martins Station and being satisfied that an attack was there made they prepared themselves at the fort at Martins Station for defence apprehending that an attempt would be also there made and this declarant again was mustered amongst the men for its defence and they dispatched two men for reinforcements one of whom was captured by the enemy (his name was McGuire) and the other escaped. On the day after the man who had been captured came to the fort in company with some British officers and they demanded a surrender and the prisoners advised that the demand should be complied with which was accordingly done and the whole number at that place became prisoners of war including men women and children. The fort was commanded by one Chas. Galtiffe and the prisoners there taken including those taken at Readys Station (in the former was included this declarant) were all taken by the British and marched to Detroit where many of them including declarant was kept until in the summer of the year 1782. He states that one of his sisters died or was killed on the way to Detroit. That his other two sisters and his brother Kezickah together with himself were kept at Detroit and his brother John was sent to some other place. In the summer of 1782 declarant understood that an exchange of prisoners was agreed upon and he together with the other prisoners were taken to Siconderaga and as he understood were there exchanged and were taken charge of by some American officers. He states that at that time there were 3 or 4 ship loads of prisoners to be exchanged and as after the exchange they were

including this declarant taken into the charge and under the care of some American officers who conducted them some distance into the interior and this declarant and his brother John reached the County of P. Edwards in the State of Va. about the 1 st Sept r 1782 it having been upwards of four years from the time he was taken prisoner at the Fort at Martins Station until he reached his old home in the State of Va. He further states that Capt. Galtiff was absent when the fort was surrendered having gone to the salt works as declarant understood. This declarant recollects well the names of various persons who lived about said fort when it was surrendered a portion of whom were among the prisoners many or quite all of whom he supposes are now dead. He recollects David White Joel Hill, - Vanhook, Wm Whitiside, Solomon Litton, William McGehee, Capt Duncan, Chas. Galtiff, - Lovelace, Sam l Pote, Wm Porter, Thos Foster, Thos Berry - Wm Leforce - Mahan, Wm Mahan and Thos Mahan and his own brother, & sister - He supposes however that all of them are dead. His brother Jesse lives now in Grinstead County Ky. but he was not at the Fort - He knows however of this declarants absence and of his return and of its being said that he was a prisoner & was exchanged - He has a niece also in the State of Missouris daughter of Ezekiel who was six or seven years old at the time the fort was surrendered and if she is alive she can testify to the facts herein detailed she being also taken & kept as a prisoner. This declarant states that after he returned to Va. when he was exchanged as before stated he remained in Prince Edwards County four or five years, then married and moved to Rockaway County Va where he continued to live until

about 1803 or '4 when he moved to Shelby County Ky where he remained one year and then moved to the neighbourhood of where he now lives in Henry County Ky. - He states that his original farming record is lost. He also states that he knows of no one now living by whom he can certainly prove his services and his detention as a prisoner except as before stated.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension rolls of the Agency of Any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Silas his  x Force mark.
We John A. McGuire a clergyman residing in Henry County Ky and J. Chilton residing in the same county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Silas Force who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be 78 years of age, that he is respected & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been taken a prisoner in the war of the revolution at the Fort at Martin Station and we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
J. A. McGuire M. G. John Chilton
And the court said court does hereby declare the opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served & was taken prisoner as he states.

And the said Court further certifies that it appears that John A. McIntire who has signed the foregoing certificate is a clergyman resident in Henry County Ky. and that John G. Hilton who has also signed the same is a resident in the same county and is a credible person and that their statements are entitled to credit
Thos. Brown  PHB
I Emma P. Thomas clerk of the Henry County Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Silas Force for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 2 o day of September 1844
Emma P. Thomas

The department will please to forward the certificate in this case to Thos. A. Birrman at Overton Owen County Ky. and make any other communication to him touching the application which may be deemed necessary.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
3650
ain
P. O.
Silas Force
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____ REJECTED _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contr
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

No. 35.876 Rejected
No. Vilaz Horse
Then Lot to Thos. C. Ferryman, Nov. 15 th 1844
Act June 7 th 1832

Washington Oct r 10 th 1845.
Sir
I am requested by the friends of Mr. Zachariah Rags of Kentucky who applied for a pension under the act of 7 th June 1832 - to ask a reexamination of his case, as they believe that enough of his services in the New Jersey Militia, were proved to entitle him to at least a small pension if not a full one, & he being very poor, in fact in a suffering condition it is very desirable that the office would act speedily upon his case & let him have the benefit of any portion of his service that may be satisfactorily proved.
I am also requested to ascertain the true condition of the claim of Silas Force of Ken y who claims to have served & to have been in captivity by the enemy, for about 4 years - was taken prisoner whilst in actual service of his country & believes himself entitled to the benefits of the act of 7 June 1832.
I have the honor to be very Respectfully
Your O bt Servant,
Hon G. M. Crump.
Statham Leake
acting Com y of Pensions

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Force, Timothy GRADE Sergeant LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 7119 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 16, 1790 To William J. Vreedenburgh, assignee (ot L.)
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.